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Transcript This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last week, researchers in the United States reported curing nine adults with sickle cell disease. Ten patients in all were treated…

Transcript This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The World Health Organization is using a new combination of drugs to treat human African trypanosomiasis disease, also known as sleeping…

Transcript The World Health Organization has begun to use a new vaccine against polio. Officials say it will become a major tool in the campaign to end a disease that…

Transcript This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The Lancet, a leading British medical journal, has withdrawn a study that scared many parents and angered many experts. The study,…

Transcript This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Last month we reported about a study that showed eating even a little less salt could greatly help the heart. The…

Transcript This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A condition called atrial fibrillation produces an abnormal heartbeat. People feel their heart race and they lose their breath. It may…

Transcript This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty. And I’m Barbara Klein. This week, we talk about a sickness called lupus and other autoimmune…

Transcript This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Rheumatoid arthritis is a painful disease that can destroy joints. Women are three times more likely to get it than men.…

Transcript This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A new study says fewer women in developing nations are dying of pregnancy-related causes. Researchers estimated how many mothers died during…

Transcript This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus. And I’m Bob Doughty. Today we tell about osteoporosis, a disease that can make bones weak…